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The White Man's Burden - Annotated by William Easterly (Paperback)

The White Man's Burden - Annotated by  William Easterly (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A professor of economics pens an informed and excoriating attack on the tragic waste, futility, and hubris of the West's efforts to improve the lot of the so-called developing world, and provides constructive suggestions on how to move forward.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>From one of the world's best-known development economists--an excoriating attack on the tragic hubris of the West's efforts to improve the lot of the so-called developing world. <p/>Brilliant at diagnosing the failings of Western intervention in the Third World. <b>--<i>BusinessWeek <p/></i></b></b>In his previous book, <i>The Elusive Quest for Growth</i>, William Easterly criticized the utter ineffectiveness of Western organizations to mitigate global poverty, and he was promptly fired by his then-employer, the World Bank. <i>The White Man's Burden</i> is his widely anticipated counterpunch--a brilliant and blistering indictment of the West's economic policies for the world's poor. Sometimes angry, sometimes irreverent, but always clear-eyed and rigorous, Easterly argues that we in the West need to face our own history of ineptitude and draw the proper conclusions, especially at a time when the question of our ability to transplant Western institutions has become one of the most pressing issues we face.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Brilliant at diagnosing the failings of Western intervention in the Third World. <b>--<i>BusinessWeek</i></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>William Easterly is a professor of economics at New York University and a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development. He was a senior research economist at the World Bank for more than sixteen years. In addition to his academic work, he has written widely in recent years for <b>The Washington Post</b>, <b>Wall Street Journal</b>, <b>Financial Times</b>, <b>Forbes</b>, and <b>Foreign Policy</b>, among others. He is the author of the acclaimed book <b>The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics</b>. He has worked in many areas of the developing world, most extensively in Africa, Latin America, and Russia.

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